Posts by Andrew Belasco:
How to Get Into Stanford: Data & Acceptance Rate & Strategies
Posted on: 31 May 2023
When you look at a list of the lowest college acceptance rates in the country and your dream school occupies one of the top positions, this is hardly cause for celebration. Stanford University, with its 3.95% acceptance rate is even more selective than MIT, Caltech, and Yale and is quite similar to Harvard, Columbia, and […]
How to Get Into UCLA: Acceptance Rate and Strategies
Posted on: 31 May 2023
The historical trajectory of UCLA admissions can best be understood through a once-per-decade peek at the university’s shifting acceptance rates. In 1980, nearly three-quarters of those who applied were accepted, by 1990, this had dropped to the low-40s. However, by 2000, it had fallen to the high 20s, by 2010, the low-20s, and now, in […]
How to Get Into the University of Michigan: Acceptance Rate and Strategies
Posted on: 30 May 2023
In recent years, the University of Michigan has opened its doors to more and more out-of-state and international students than at any point in the school’s history. Presently, roughly half of the undergraduate student population are non-Michigan residents; a decade ago, 64% were Michigan natives. The 32,000+ current Wolverine undergrads are a more high-achieving bunch […]
How to Get Into UC Berkeley: Acceptance Rate and Strategies
Posted on: 30 May 2023
The University of California – Berkeley’s reputation as a haven for young liberals grew in the 1960s as it became the epicenter of protests over the Vietnam War and, in many ways, the very center of the counterculture movement itself. By the 1970s, the University had a reputation for strong academics, but it was by […]
How to Get Into UNC Chapel Hill: Acceptance Rate and Strategies
Posted on: 29 May 2023
It is rare to find a college, even of the public variety, with an annual tuition figure only four digits in length. It is even rarer to find a university that provides an elite undergraduate education with numerous top-ranked academic programs for such an affordable sum. UNC-Chapel Hill is one the finest higher education bargains […]
How to Get Into Rice University: Acceptance Rate and Strategies
Posted on: 25 May 2023
Houston, Texas is home to one of the nation’s finest private research institutions—Rice University. No matter how you measure Rice’s performance, this school of roughly 4,000 undergraduates comes out shining bright. The university is consistently ranked in the top 20 among all universities and is known for its exceptional undergraduate engineering program. This well-resourced school […]
How to Get Into UGA: Acceptance Rate & Strategies
Posted on: 24 May 2023
Fifteen years ago, becoming a University of Georgia Bulldog was a pretty routine venture. The average successful applicant had a GPA of 3.6 and an SAT score of right around 1200—more than 75% of those who applied were welcomed to Athens. In 2023, the average UGA admit possesses SATs within a mid-50% range of 1270-1470 […]
How to Get Into MIT: Acceptance Rate & Strategies
Posted on: 24 May 2023
Most of the 26,000+ annual applicants to MIT would qualify as “geniuses” when measured by sheer IQ and traditional academic achievement. Yet, somehow the majority of this highly-capable applicant pool gets left behind each year as the MIT acceptance rate remains under 5%. Back in the early 1990s, the applicant pool was only one-fifth as […]
